--------------Flesh of the sky, child of the sky, the mindHas been obligated from the beginningTo create an ordered universeAs the only possible proof of its own inheritance. † † † † † † † † † † † † - Pattiann Rogers

--------------It's natural to be curious about our world, but the scientific method is just one theory about how to best understand it. †We live in a democracy, which means we should treat every theory equally. - Steven Colbert, I Am America (and So Can You!)

--------------"[A scientific theory] describes Nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And it agrees fully with experiment. So I hope you can accept Nature as She is - absurd."- Richard P. Feynman

Happy birthday louFCD and Sledgehammer (heh. We were going to cover that song on the new album "Stucco Removal Machine).

Funny, you don't look a day over 90, sledge.

--------------"But it's disturbing to think someone actually thinks creationism -- having put it's hand on the hot stove every day for the last 400 years -- will get a different result tomorrow." -- midwifetoad

Many years ago today something grewinside of your mother...That thing was you

YOU

YOU YOU YOU YOU

Did she scream did she cryOnly those that are born are the ones thatGet to die

One more year closer to dyingRotting organs ripping grindingBiological discordanceBirthday equals self abhorrence

Years keep passing aging alwaysMutate into vapid slugsDoctor gives a new perscriptionBullet in a fucking gun

One more year closer to dyingPlastic surgeons fuel the lyingYou forget why you came in hereYour mind rots with every new year

RSVP PLEASEFor the DETH of theeYou have little timeAnd you're running out of life

Happy BirthdayYou're gonna die

Now you're old and full of hatredTake a pill to masturbatredChildren point to you and screamBecause they will become that thing

One more year of further sufferingThere's no point of fucking bluffingOpen up your DETHDAY presentIt's a box of fucking nothing

RSVP PLEASEFor the DETH of theeYou have little timeAnd you're running out of life

Happy BirthdayYou're gonna die

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RSVP PLEASEFor the DETH of theeYou have little timeAnd you're running out of life

Happy BirthdayYou're gonna die

You're running out of life...

--------------I wouldn't be bothered reading about the selfish gene because it has never been identified. -- Denyse O'Leary, professional moronAgain "how much". I don't think that's a good way to be quantitative.-- gpuccio

--------------"Random mutations, if they are truly random, will affect, and potentially damage, any aspect of the organism, [...]Thus, a realistic [computer] simulation [of evolution] would allow the program, OS, and hardware to be affected in a random fashion." GilDodgen, Frilly shirt owner

--------------The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny is alleviated by their lack of consistency. -A. Einstein †(H/T, JAD)
If evolution is true, you could not know that it's true because your brain is nothing but chemicals. ?Think about that. -K. Hovind

Thanks everybody. Had a lovely birthday weekend tromping through woods and streams and pine savanna, and started this morning at 0:dark30 walking the Emerald Isle beach searching for signs of nesting sea turtles.

I am LouFCD of the Sea Turtle Protection Program. I'm like a superhero or something.

This is finals week, so back to the books I should have had my nose in all weekend.

--------------Lou FCD is still in school, so we should only count him as a baby biologist. -carlsonjok -deprecatedI think I might love you. Don't tell Deadman -Wolfhound

--------------"But it's disturbing to think someone actually thinks creationism -- having put it's hand on the hot stove every day for the last 400 years -- will get a different result tomorrow." -- midwifetoad